Of those interned in the camp, the only person I am in contact with is my cousin who was born there. As you can imagine, we survivors were children at the time, and our parents decamped all over the world afterwards.
I remember one of the US internees told me that Weihsien camp is not only a part of Chinese history but also a part of US history too. The unique history of Weihsien camp has provided a connection with the rest of the world.
When Ernest Shackleton failed in his attempt to reach the South Pole 103 years ago, the British adventurer bemoaned what he saw as growing reluctance to explore the world.
In February 1985, China opened the Great Wall Station, the country's first research establishment in West Antarctica. The station lies on the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, 2.5 km from the Chilean Eduardo Frei Montalva Station, and 960 km from Cape Horn.
Azure skies, pure air, adorable penguins and lazy seals, magnificent glaciers of every shape imaginable... the first time I stepped onto Antarctica, I fell in love with it.
On Valentine's Day, Longsheng, a giant panda at Zhengzhou Zoo, climbed down from his wooden bed to the window and reached out slowly with his right paw to grasp a red carrot from his feeding tray. He seemed lonely without his female companion, Jinyi, who had died on Feb 9.
Concerns about the welfare of animals displayed in zoos outside of China have spawned regulations that govern their humane handling, treatment and transportation.
In an otherwise unremarkable hospital waiting room in Zhoushan, the first city in China to move away from the one-child policy, an expectant father places his hand on the protruding curve of his wife's belly.
In 1958, Mao Zedong presented an inspiring vision of the role of women in society when he declared they "hold up half the sky".
In 2013, nyuhanzi became one of the most popular Internet words in China. In Chinese, it literally means a "female man", or a man inside a woman's body. Metaphorically, it means a woman who thinks and behaves like a man, especially men with undisciplined habits.
Yang Yang knows how it feels to be bathed in glory. She is the first Chinese athlete to stand on the champions podium at the Winter Olympics, winning two gold medals, two silvers and one bronze for short-track speedskating between 1998 and 2006.
On a chilly Monday afternoon, Wang Dandan walked idly around the Yuanfeng Hotel in Zhongtang, a township in Dongguan, Guangdong province, where she worked for just one month at the end of last year.
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